Automatic register



. April 26, 1927.. 1,626,574

P. A. JACKSON AAUTOMATIC REGISTER y Filed Feb.16, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet l prl 26,i 1927. 1,626,574 P. A. JACKSON y l AUTOMATIC REGISTER Filed Feb.1e. '1922 2 sheets-sheet 2 y PA .'Jczcfwam,

Patented` pr. 1927.

FFI c *PHILIP A. JACKSON, OE ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AssIGNoR'TO THE EGRY lREGISTER COMPANY, OE DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION or OHIO.

AUTOMATIC REGISTER.

Application tiled February 16, 1922. Serial No. 537,079.

This invention has reference to automatic registers, and its object is to provide a device for causing duplicate copies of a bill or memorandum for the transaction of the business, the device being adapted to rest upon a counter or other support and to contain numerous rolls of paper with carbon sheets between them so that when the bills aremade out, all the bills may be torn off, or one copy may be rewound in the device and the other or others (one original and a copy), are

- capable of severance from the rolls Jfor 4presentation, to a customer and# for other purposes.

With respect to the rollsof paper, the invention need not ditler from lautographic registers already in use, but the invention differs from prior devices in that the duplicate bills are brought into register, irrespective of their length, within certain limits," due to the presence of certain devices, for when 4the sheets are released they aline them- 'selves by v natural recoil aided by gravity means...

The invention will best be understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drafwings forming partI 4of this specification, with the understanding, however, that the invention is not conlined to any strict conformity with the showingof the drawings, but may be changed and modified so long as such changes and modiica'tions mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed inthe appended claims.

In the drawings.: f

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the register.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal, vertical section thereof, showingan appropriate number of rolls of p yper therein.

Figure is a diagram of the arrangement shown in Figure 2 but omitting .some details.

Figure 4 is a plan viewof the machine of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a view, partly in elevation and -pa'rtly in horizontal section, of a wind-up roll and adjacent structure. l

Figure 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Figure 2.

Figure 7 is a detail view of one of the gravity devlces for tensioning the paper.

Figure ..8 is a ,detail view of a gravity member for traversing matching punchv holes in the paper shee x Referring to the drawings, there is shown a.' caslng 1, such as is ordinarily provided in furnished with a depressed writing table 2, over which superposed sheets 3 are caused to travel, such sheets being customarily paper overrunning of the spools in unwinding and to aid recoil and alignment. In the particular structure shown,\there are three sheets of paper, butlthe number of sheets may vary. At the right hand end of .the casing 1, as seen in the drawings, and arra'nged in a series of three, are idler rollers 6 capable of individual movement in slanting recesses 7. The rollers may be mounted in frames 8 and the cross-barl of said frames are just in front of idlersv 6 but do not interfere with the passage of the paper. These frames 8 are provided with side arms that are bent down at ends and pivoted to the sides-of the casing, so that the rollers may, in any case, have a normal tendency to gravitate towa'rd the bottoms of the recesses 7 of the frames 8, or they may roll independently in the recesses Without the frames 8. The idler rollers 6 are fixed in frames 8 and in loading the register frame the idlers are lifted clear.

' Each web 3 of paper is carried about a respective idler roller after coming from the roll 4 of papers and then returned to the opposite end of the casing 1 over the table 2.

autographic billing registers. This casing is After passing over the table 2, the group of paper sheets 3 is continued, lwith the sheets in superposed order, beyond a tearing edge 10, or other means, whereby the group of. sheets or all but one sheet to be retained, ma'y be severed at will. In the last named ,case,.one sheet 3, constituting the lowerl most one of the group of sheets, -is not continued past the tearing ed e 10, but is direeted into the interior of t e casing 1, to be Ion i ultimately. wound on a storage roller or drum.

I sheets 3 pass between a feed gripping roller 12 within the casing and another feed roller 13,'containing within a housing 14 on the top of the casmg and extending transversely thereof. The roller 13 is mounted on trunnions 15, and these trunnions are mounted in elongated guides 16 at opposite ends of the roller 13. Each guide 16 has a rod-like extension 17 slidable through a fixed bracket 18 fast to the corresponding side wall of the casing, and the extension 17 is surroundf tion, the cam-like projections 23 will engage ed by a spring 19 tending to draw the roller 13 toward the. roller 12, whereby to grip the sheets 3 between said rollers 12 and J13. In this manner, onrotating the roller 12 and with the springs 19 free to act, the ro 1ers 12 and 13 operate as feedin rollers,y on im arting relative movement to the roller" 12. uch movement is accomplished by means of ya crank 20, fast on a shaft 21 carrying the roller 12 and journaledin the side of the casing wall. The guides 16 are mounted to slide between. ribs22, suitably spaced apart on the inner wall of the casing 1 to receive the guides 16 and permit variation in the distance between the rollers 12 and 13. At the end portion of the roller 12 are canilike projections 23, preferably made detachable and adjustable and so located as to be out of the, path of the su erposed sheets 3, whereby every time the ro ler 12 is rotated a suiicient distance, say one revoluthe roller 13, thus lifting it away from the sheets 3', and releasing them. The lcircumference of the drum 12 is lslightly greater than the length of the bills, aside from the space taken up by the cams 23, for the purpose of allowing for the recoil and alinement of said bills.

.4t one end of the roller 12 there is provided a gear wheel 24 rotatable with the Wheel' 25, which carries pawl 30, mounte on a stud 26, carried'by the frame 1, these parts being best shown in Figure 5, and also appear in Figure 2. Thestud carries a ratchet wheel 27, to which there is made fast a gear wheel 28, while on the adjacent wall of the casing 1 is a pin or stud 29, in the dpath of a trip pawl 30, fast to gear wheel 25, which may have a normal constraint by reason of a spring 30", for constant one-way engagement with the ratchet 27, except when en. gaged by the pin or stud 29. The geaf wheel 28 is in mesh with another gear wheel 31, with a friction pull to the drum 11, the arrangement being such that when the drum or roller 12 is rotated by the handle 2O in theproper direction, motion is transmitted through thef gear wheel 28 to the drum 11, by friction pull 31, thereby winding the record sheets 3a upon the drum 1.1, to preserve a record Within the register of the writing produced on the table 2. The drum l1 has frictional connection with the gear wheel 31 to be intermittently rotated by the latter when the handle 20 is actuated, as the said drum must travel faster than the bills are driven by thel rollers 12 and 13.

The sheets4 zhave pairs of punch holes` near the center thereof to 4receive pins 32 pivoted on a rock shaft 33, and located near the center of the casing 1, so as totraverse the punch holes in the sheets 4, these pins having beveled or similarly shaped ends 34,

best shown in Figure 2. The beveled ends 34 permit the paper sheets to override the pins as the rollers 12 and 13 feed the paperA sheets forwardly, the gravityrollers 6 participating in this forward movement. The projections 23, when they Yreach the rollers 13, liftI it away from the roller 12, thus releasing the sheets 4, whereupon the rollers 6, riding down the inclined surfaces 7, re-

turn the rollers 6 and -pull the sheets against the pins 32 in such manner that all` thesheets then traversed by the pins are brought into register automatlcally. ,This applica- 'tion is facilitated by providing the rock shaft 33 with counterweights 35, tending at all times to pressl the pins 32 upwardly. As paper is drawn over 3 2 it is pressed down until punch holes are brought over point of 32 and pins 32 press upwardly through punched holes vfor perfect alinexnent.

Manifestly .the-pins 32 have their front surfaces perpendicular -to prevent lost motion,.while the bevel at the top of the pins 32 is to allow bills after being alined on pins 32, to\automatically ride over the pins in a forward direction, otherwise the bills would jam on the tops of pins. It will be seen that the pins 32, may be arranged close I up in front of gri per rollers or in rear of gripper rolle-rs so ong as they are in alignment with punch holes.

The crank 20 is provided with a yieldable pin 36, movable at one phase of the rotation of the crank, against an inclined surface 37 having a notch into which the pin 36 may temporarily snap and from'which the pinl 36 may be withdrawn to allow further rotation of thecrank. l

t one side of the casing 1, there ism holder or pocket 38, in which maybe lodged sheets '39, of carbon or other impressionpaper, extending crosswise ofthe path of movement of the sheets 3, between'the latllh ter, s'o that writing produced u on the outermost sheet of paper will provi e impressions on the other sheets thereunder, this being ay feature common `in billing registers, and so requires no particular description.

A carbon sheets 39,

lrounding the pins 32,

is liftedV out of aper, to ether with the ai-)e threadid through the machine in the usual manner. or memorandum is to be produced it is written upon the outermost one ofthe sheets covering the table 2 and the crank 20 is then manlpulated to feed these sheets beyond the tearing edge with the exception of the lowermost sheet 4, which on the turning of the'crank 20 is wound upon the drum or roller 11 to form a part of the retained or locked-in-record, ythe other sheets being torn off at the tearing edge 1() in order to provide a copy for the ycustomer and another-copv The sheets 3 of when desired, for le copy, these lfeatures belng common to billing reglsters All 'bills are' vfreed at thel same time by the trip ing action of the pawl 30, and the action o the cams 23, said bills being caused to align byv reason of the punchholes surthe recoil of the said bills resulting from the backward pull of'the vrollers 6 drawing the same taut and in perfect alignment, itbeing understood that the pawl 30, cams 23 and rollers 6 act at the same time that the pins 32 automatically7 enter through the proper punch holes. But tipping of pawl must begin slightly in. advance of action of cams 23 to stop drum 11 and to allow slack in record sheet forv recoil, and aligning with other sheets. However, the parts are so timed that before the tearing operation is performed, the roller 13 feeding contact with the roller 12 and pawl 30 is tripped by the stud 26 releasing the sheets and Ipermitting the gravity rollers 6 to have a short returnmovement, with the pins 32 in engagement with the sheets. to return the several sheets into register, after which the sheets are again engaged by the rollers 12 and 13,and held while being brought into engagement with the tearing edge 10 in order to sever those sheets whichV it is intended should be remoifed from theregister while. leaving the lowermost sheet in position. ,The registering of the several sheets occurs while these sheets are released When a bill h ersmay be moved forwardly when th by the rollers 12 and 13 Y when the stud 26trips the pawl 30, and the tearing of the sheets occurs when the rollers ave returned toy clamping relation to the sheets.

The invention provides for the matching or registering of the sheets yupon which the' bill or other record is the pins 32 and th turn of the bills sulting in the feeding of the sheets into tearing position. The mechanism for this purpose is peculiar to this invention.

Having described my invention, what I produced by means of e overrunning and thereclaim and desire to secure by Letters Patent In an autographic register for feeding 65 a pluralityv of paper sheets having space series of perforations, feeding rollers, means to actuate said rollers to feed Asaid sheets, means to separate said rollers to interrupt the feeding of said sheets, matically align said sheets comprisingpins to receive the perforations in the sheets after they have passed throughl the feeding rollers and rollers adapted to draw the sheets back against said pins during the'separation of said feeding'rollers, the several steps in the operation consisting of feeding the desired length of sheets and realigning the sheets ready for the next operation being automatically7 performed by one revolution ofthe actuatmg means.

2. In an autographic register for feedin f a' plurality of paper sheets having spaced series of perforations, brackets pivotally mounted in the side walls of said register adjacent openings therein, a rollerl mounted in each .of said brackets, said openings having the lower edges thereof inclined toward theffront of the register. whereby the rolle paper rearaper cmg is being fed and returned by avity wardly when the feeding o? the ceases, the movement of the rollers limited by said openings.

In testlmony my hand. PHILIP A. JACKSON.

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